Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-30

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interesting acquaintance whom never
saw in my life. The kisses and pet
names, and love messages ? Oh, they
are from the boys and young scamps,
and / will say this for them, they never
pass certain bounds. I'd just like to see
one try it.
TEE NEWS STAND.
II am plagued to death, said a
Young woman who attends a newsstand
in downtown hotel; "my customers
invite me 10 the theatre, bring me bou-
! quets, want me TO 90 riding, and poster
meuntil sometimes go home and haveit
ont with a good cry. The men nearly
all seem TO think because Tam woman
they must do something more than
merely transact business. They often
ask me if there is not some
thing that / want or that they can do
for me. Then there is class Of
young bachelors who ere forever telling
me they don't know any ladies, and
can't / introduce them and put them in
society. New York seems to be full of
young countrymen who really don't
know anybody outside their business
Offices. And then there is that other
class of-well, call them ninnies-
who simply stand around and make
sleeps eyes and Ogle me. ] wish there
were more women in business, so that
men would get used TO them"
4 young widow who used to he in
her father and little boy by singing on
the stage. She is merry-hearted
creature, and enjoys what others would
consider persecution. She says she
nightly gets from two TO six notes and
cards in boquets tossed over the foot
lights or handed in at the stage-dOOr.
She takes them home aud laughs over
them with her friends Sometimes
| am cornered, though" she adds, ''by
somebody who gets behind the scenes.
| do for them with q sentence: I'D
be delighted to make an appointment,
say; come to my rooms tomorrow,
and I'll introduce You to my father
He is always home and delighted to see
company.
TRADING WITH GREENLAND.
Dickens has some reference to South
street, New York, and the maritime life
there, the great ships sending their
bowsprits half way across the muddy
thoroughfare, ships that have come from
all over the world. and will soon be in
far-off seas again doing the errands of
commerce. It was down il this tarry
region Of ships, sailors, 'longsholemen,
and ship-brokcrs, Of sail-lofts, ship
chambers, and tug and lighter com
panics that ] talked with two
old-time sea captains the other
day. One of these hardy naviga-
tors WAS tall, full-faced, we'll
built, benevolent-looking man. Captain
LouchlHn Mckay. In command OF the
Sovereign Of the Seas, one OF the IA
nous old clippers that once made
Americans proud Of their merchant
marine, Captain Mckay left New York
lor San Francisco in August, 1851.
The freight money amounted to $50
Goa very large sum to-day; barrel
# flour sohl in San Francisco in those
days of gold-fevcr for about $4j. OFF
Valparaiso, in a storm, Captain Nc
kays ship was dismasted, but rugged
up again, and reached her destination
N 1O2 days, which was a quick pas
sage. Discharging her cargo, the gal
liant clipper sailed for Honolulu
and loaded with oil for New
York, and made the extraordinary
lime of eighty-two days. For
10000 miles she sailed without lacking
or wearing, and in ten consecutive days
she made $500 miles. But the days of
the noble old clippers are gone, and /
went To see this veteran of the sea about
the ships that trade with Greenland.
DE and a business associate own seven
vessels engaged in this strange trade
mother American commercial 90
to the far-of' land OF Kane, Sir john
franklin. and SO many other gallant
men who have bravcd the rigors of its
highest ATTITUDES. The vessels go
out in ballast, for although Green
land imports wheat, brandy, cof-
fee. sugar. tobacco, and fire
wood, it is not from this country.
They bring back a metal termed ergo
lite. which they obtain at n port called
ivigtut. on the southwest coast of
Greenland. 1t is a bleak country, even
in the short summer, during two
months of Wilhelm June and July
the sun is always above the horizon.
Moses, stunted shrubs, dwarfish trees,
and neutrality-suspicious. are about the
only vegetation, and the bare noun
,ains in the gnp Of great glaciers and
the generally dead and desolate aspect
Of the country make it appear as
strange and unreal as that gray corpse
Of q world the moon. CryOlite looks
ike ice, and hence the name signifies
ice-stone. 1t is all taken to Philadel-
phia. and is used in manufacturing
soda, alum, I'VE, porcelain, piano
KEYS, door.knobs, clock-dials, and other
articles. The seven banks in the trade
each carry about 500 tons of this strange
mineral. and make fourteen voyages ina
wear. Last year they brought 8, 1OO tons
10 this country. Those at lyi9tutare the
onlv known cryOlite mines IL the world.
Specimens of this mineral have been
fomd in the Ural mountains and on
Pixies Peak, but no other actual mines
but those in Greenland are known. 1t
takes twenty days to go to ivlgtut and
thirty to return. The Danish Govern
ment owns the mines, and they are
worked by company that pays roy
ATTY 10 that Government. The vessels
IN this trade are built unusually strong
in order TO withstand the rigOrs of that
frozen region. They have steel plates on
the bow, iron on the stem or forward
part of the vessel, double planks onthe
sides, and are filled in with timber, and
vet three wears ago one of the staunch
barks was lost in the ice, and one that
reached the open sea was never after
wards heard from. The danger is not
80 much from icebergs as from the
great blocks of floating ice, or - flow
lee. =" in the nautical phrase, and IN Sep
tember and October there is great dan
Ger from sunken ice. For eight months
of the wear, or in the winter season, it
is a continuous night, and then navi9a-
ton is especially dangerous. During
the four summer months of the year
vegetation makes rapid progress, but it
is of a dwarfsh character, and the tall
est trees do not exceed eighteen feet.
The greatest recorded cold of Greenland
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